During the civil rights movement of the early 1960s, The Freedom Singers traveled across the country to raise funds for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Their songs spread a message of ...

The eight-piece group represents Skid Row, a neighborhood in Los Angeles that contains one of the largest populations of people who are homeless in the U.S. “For us, freedom singing bring us close ...

ALBANY, GA (WALB) - The soul and spirit of Southwest Georgia’s role in the Civil Rights Movement can best be encapsulated through song. Albany native Rutha Harris, one of the original Freedom Singers, ...

Bernice Johnson Reagon, a civil rights activist who co-founded The Freedom Singers and later started the African American vocal ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, died Tuesday at the age of 81. Her ...

Six decades after the Civil Rights Movement, Rutha Mae Harris, the last surviving member of the Freedom Singers, is continuing to shape how the next generation of leaders in Albany, Georgia are ...

Reagon, who died July 16, was one of the powerful singers who helped galvanize the civil rights movement in the 1960s as a member of the Freedom Singers quartet. Originally broadcast in 1988. This is ...

At first, Charles Neblett rejected the call to join a singing group. He had been working in the Mississippi Delta in 1961 helping with the daunting task of registering Black residents to vote. But ...

The songleader, civil rights activist and scholar died Tuesday at the age of 81. Bernice Johnson Reagon, a civil rights activist who co-founded The Freedom Singers and later started the African ...